Facebook is getting hammered by lawmakers, consumers and even investors

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Following its most challenging month in more than three years, Facebook's social media empire is showing some major cracks.

and anti-maskers have run wild, with Facebook's algorithms often helping to spread the most outlandish conspiracy theories.

On Tuesday, after her appearance on "60 Minutes," Haugen testified before the same subcommittee that hosted Davis. Haugen was scathing in her criticism of her former employer, telling lawmakers that the company consistently prioritizes profits over user health and safety and that it steers users toward high-engagement posts that are often known to be harmful.

"We make money from ads, and advertisers consistently tell us they don't want their ads next to harmful or angry content," he wrote.worst service outage since 2008The outage was caused by "configuration changes on the backbone routers" and knocked out the company's numerous services, including Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, for six hours.

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